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Piecing Tear Bear

The term rotator cuff injury covers a huge range of possible shoulder problems which all have one thing in common in that one of the four muscles in the rotator cuff has become injured either as the result of plain simple wear and tear or through it being overloaded perhaps by lifting something too heavy or in some cases by trauma in an accident. With so many different ways to injure them how do we know what to do to fix rotator cuff muscles.

The cuff muscles hold the ball at the head of the upper arm or humerus into the socket of the shoulder joint that is formed by the outer edge of the shoulder blade. Unlike the hip joint the ball of the shoulder joint is much larger than the socket in which it sits so this group of muscles all attach onto the humerus and the shoulder blade surrounding the shoulder in a cuff of muscle and helping to keep it stable.

Whenever you lift something the muscles tense up to hold your shoulder in place. If you move your arm above your shoulder these muscles pull the joint together and stop it from dislocating. These are small but important muscles but they are also muscles that we often neglect. If you do neglect them, sooner or later they will let you down especially as we age. Some sports put these muscles under huge strain by overusing them, Baseball pitchers is the classic example, lots of snappy movement above shoulder height when these muscles are at their most stressed. Painters who are working overhead often suffer from rotator cuff problems.

So having worked out that a lot of shoulder injuries come about as a result of neglect, it should not come as any surprise that the best way to fix rotator cuff muscles usually involves exercises to build up and strengthen them. If you have damaged this set of muscles the most important thing is to let them rest properly. It is vital to let them heal naturally for two or three weeks and to avoid load bearing exercise as well as any movement that causes pain.

You might need to change the way in which you work, reorganise your desk or even stop driving for a couple of weeks. It is worth doing simply because it speeds up the recovery time dramatically

Once the muscle has calmed down you then need to start building them up again. This will always involve exercise with low weights or low resistance as these muscles are small. Using large weights will exercise the wrong muscles and may well cause further injury. Pilates style exercises are ideal for this as they work on control and flexibility and use your bodies natural resistance to strengthen muscles.

It is vital that you never try to work through a rotator cuff problem. Taking pain killers and carrying on is a short term fix that is likely to lead to long term problems. Depending on which one of the tendons or muscles you have damaged you end up with an injury that needs surgery if you ignore it.

Some injuries will require surgery. If you have managed to tear the muscle badly surgery might well be needed to clean up the tear to better facilitate healing. Some cuff tears result in a shoulder impingement. This may go with rest and exercise but if it is stubborn and doesn't get better you may need surgery to shave away a piece of bone to free up the tendon that is getting pinched.

The good news is that most shoulder surgery these days is keyhole surgery with quick recovery times and a very high success rate so don't soldier on with a bad shoulder.
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